In the last couple of years, business is growing over 100% year-on-year.”Ī constant battle is on between YouTube and viewbotters. “When we started, there were no orders for 8-10 months. Also, we have two options - Google-approved views, which are slightly costlier, or normal views, which are available for about Rs 130 per 1,000 views,” said Socioblend’s Maheshwari. “They don’t want third parties,but it is not illegal. The agency owners felt YouTube only wants everyone to spend money on their platform. It’s an off-and-on business,” said Agarwal, who is awaiting his Class 12 exam results. “We promote ourselves through social media and get paid through Paytm. Take Chandigarh-based, 17-year-old Ankit Agarwal and his partner Saksham, who offer 1,000 YouTube views for Rs 200, apart from 1,000 YouTube monetisable views for Rs 250. Increasing tech literacy, cheap labour and data, and falling cost of devices have made India an ideal place for viewbotting, which refers to artificially inflating viewership by using bots and malware. Also, a lot of these social media influencers, who don’t have enough followers, spend money to buy the first set of viewers to get some traction,” said Vineet Sodhani, CEO, Spatial Access, a media audit and consulting firm.
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“We see most number of fake views where there is a direct monetary benefit by more number of views, such as music videos, movie trailers, and even brand launches, especially in the mobile space. The motivation to generate more views varies, ranging from promotion of a movie or song to a product launch to desire for monetisation from Google Adsense - essentially Google’s monetisation programme for content creators who generate large volumes of traffic.įor content creators, buying views is a booster shot for attaining the ultimate online success - virality.īy some estimates, 300 hours of content gets uploaded to YouTube every minute, so competition for views is tough. The largest click farms are located in China, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Philippines and Bangladesh. A few of them even offer ultra-fast YouTube views, promising 50,000 high-quality nondrop views within 6-12 hours for a sum ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000.įor the uninitiated, ‘high-quality’ views are those in which the clicks are by people in ‘click farms’, not bots or malware. There is no dearth of websites that offer such services, often with detailed plans and freebies thrown in, such as the first 1,000 YouTube views being free, and that is not just ‘plain vanilla’ views. The problem is that in most cases, brands take shortcuts and spend money to buy views.”